Cairns Family Adventures : Easter and a touch of pink

It has been a busy few weeks here. Right before Easter our furnace was broken, so we had two very cold nights. We had a space heater that we put outside of Joelle’s room for her and we bundled Liam up in his snowsuit because he moves around too much in his sleep and I was worried he would be too cold. Thankfully having small children under the age of three is considered a furnace emergency and they came out right away to assess the problem and came back the next evening with the parts to fix our furnace. We were lucky that the furnace repair guys were working out in Nordegg and at the end of their day they came by to help us.

Liam sleeping in his snowsuit

I had my 20 week ultrasound of our newest wee one. Our baby was moving around a lot making it a bit of a challenge for the tec to get the measurements she needed. The tec told us that everything looks good, a nice thing to hear after having two emergency ultrasounds early on to see if the baby was doing alright. I was a bit worried when the tec kept on saying the baby is moving so much because we were hoping to find out what gender our little bundle was going to be this time. The baby surprised me and was cooperative for us, we are adding a touch of pink, a little girl to our family in August. Joelle is really excited about having a baby sister she has even picked out names for our little girl. Tinkerbell (this I know comes from the newest Tinkerbell movie where she finds out she has a sister, makes sense) and her second most verbalised one is Monie Laka, this one I have no idea where it comes from. It amazing that she can’t come up with names for her toys besides blond baby, gaff, oh so cute baby gaff, monkey, baby monkey ect. I think her vote is for Tinkerbell because she has started talking about our baby using the name Tinkerbell.

For Easter we went home to Troy’s parents place and brought Johannes, Claudius, and Patricia with us. They are from Germany and working with us for a year. It was a weekend full of fun, driving, shopping at West Edmonton Mall where Troy and Johannes went bungee jumping! Troy said it was terrifying and seemed so un-natural to jump off the platform. He was glad he did it because it was something he always wanted to try.